If a patient comes in to a provider's office to obtain a referral for a screening colonoscopy how is the E/M billed to the patient's insurance?
It is not a preventive visit as no preventive exam is done but it is not medical either as the patient has no signs or symptoms of a medical condition but does meet the 50+ age requirement for a screening colonoscopy. Would you bill the medical E/M, i.e. 99212 with ICD-9 V76.51? Or, if patient does have a family history but still no symptoms would you use ICD-9 V16.0?